Rosalía ft. Ralphie Choo – Omega
Rollercoaster ride in the chill lane…
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Jel Bugle: I like that it’s a mix of styles — starts all glitchy, and then Rosalia does a nice bit of singing with acoustic guitars. Ralphie’s autotune bit seems superfluous, a bit of a passenger. I worried a lot that Rosalia was going to lose the fur hat on the roller coaster.
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Katherine St. Asaph: Pretty, plaintive, and slight.
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Harlan Talib Ockey: Big fan of the Coverdale Page guitars. After hearing Rosalía’s vocals shift so effortlessly between airy and foreboding, I was skeptical what Ralphie Choo could possibly bring to this, but his lower register is a valuable counterweight. (Until we get to the laughable Celine Dion line.) Lastly: does she know?
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Mark Sinker: Does Rosalía know what omega means? Do we? Even ignoring the wolf-bondage stuff (a good thing to ignore, especially with Ralphie Choo as the Céline Dion of the situation) it’s mainly a way to say “you’re my first and and my last” (and you have to couple it with alpha to make this work). Does this matter? I want to say “never fact-check a declaration of devotion” — and this even despite all the historical unhappiness that fact-checks might have helped people avoid. I also want to say that even if the Céline Dion of the situation’s voice is a bit meagre, Rosalía’s is honestly gorgeous. Let this prettiness stand in dynamic apposition to my small-minded pettiness.
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Ian Mathers: Given how the rest of the track feels so clearly structured and sang as a genuinely stirring, sincere ballad, it’s kind of wild that those little munchkin-voiced “tell me that you care, you care, you care” don’t mess up the vibe more. Mostly due to Rosalía’s vocal performance, Choo is just kind of there in comparison. However, [CELINE DION MENTIONED]
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John S. Quinn-Puerta: Ralphie Choo didn’t need to be here, but he doesn’t take much away from the affair, giving Rosalía a sentimental vocal showcase backed by a guitar that was always going to speak to me. It just needs to stop adding things and recognize it peaks in the second chorus.
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Nortey Dowuona: Practicing love is a funny thing. You have to dive all in, ask the difficult questions of yourself you don’t answer, learn to pay the mortgage on time and start stressing about that too. And you even have to reckon with even if the person, persons or yourself is worth it. Most of the time it’s yes. half the time it’s no. The rest is so murky that usually most relationships of any kind evaporate once these murky waters appear. Sometimes, you get so deep in that when you realize they don’t actually want to keep making that investment, it’s often too late. But within this brief bubble of bright, vivid Technicolor, your desire to make that investment, that first step, that deeply vulnerable act of letting a part of you be know, then showing more as time goes on, is rewarded, it is buoyed, it stirs you deeply. Rosalía’s engagement to Rauw Alejandro unfortunately was made available on the belief it could survive our desire to see it fail and our excitement to see it succeed. Her voice oozes tenderness, joy, warmth, willingness to open up her heart once more to us. The result, however, is up to us.
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